[OpenTRV-dev] Paul's case

[Damon Hart-Davis]

Hi,

The existing OpenTRV V0.09 may do what you want, depending on the details of your boiler control.

It simply has a toggle between frost/warm/bake modes, a small setback when the room is dark, and the ability to control the local rad with an FHT8V wireless value and optionally a local boiler.  The two rads in one room can 

(I'm currently managing 3 rads in 3 rooms.)

Tell me please:

 * What your boiler is and
 * What thermostat you currently have (is it 2-wire, 240V, which we can control?) and
 * Are any of the rads you want to control in the same room as the thermostat (and with existing TRVs or not)...

(Feel free to mail me privately if you wish.)

Rgds

Damon



On 2 Apr 2013, at 14:18, Paul Smith wrote:

> Hi Guys, 
> 
> So based on the discussion so far what should be my starting point to get basic control over 3 rads in two rooms.
> 
> Regards
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> Paul
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> Paul Smith
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> On 2 April 2013 14:16, Damon Hart-Davis <EMAIL ADDRESS HIDDEN> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> OpenTRV might never had happened if the FS20 system had incorporated occupancy-based setbacks and the system had had some way to switch to an English localisation.  (I didn't really want to make the rest of my family learn German to operate the controls!)
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> Rgds
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> Damon
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> On 2 Apr 2013, at 14:01, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:05 PM, I wrote:
> >> Among the commercial systems that I have looked into only Honeywell
> >> Evohome and Danfoss Living Connect dare to control the boiler and only
> >> Honeywell can control a modulating OpenTherm boiler. Reading forums
> >> related to these systems I didn't get the impression that the software
> >> in those systems has been well tuned yet.
> >
> > And just after sending that I found out from the site to which Damon linked
> >
> >    http://www.webinos.org/blog/2013/02/23/home-heating-automation-using-webinos/
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> > that the Conrad FS20 system also has a boiler controller component.  :)
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